Plenty of Nothing

JR East Train Wreck Museum

Source. Open to JR employees only.

Bombardier B-12 Auto Neige

Source. Or visit Le Musée de l’ingéniosité J. Armand Bombardier. Website.

Toy Museum, Nuremberg

Source.

Henry Moore at the AGO

On this day in 1968 sculptor Henry Moore donated about 900 works of art to the Art Gallery of Ontario, where you can still see them. Source.

Patron Saints of Austria

The patron saints of Austria by Albrecht Dürer (1517).

They are:

Quirinus.

Maximilianus.

Florianus.

Severinus of Noricum.

Colomanus.

Leopoldus.

Poppo.

Otto.

Source: National Gallery of Victoria.

Today is Austria's national holiday.

Mister and Missus Teapot

From the online collection of the Winterthur Museum in Delaware. Source.

The Garden of Motive Power

Toyota has converted an old textile mill in Nagoya into the Toyota Commemorative Museum of Industry and Technology. There are trucks and machines to see. In the middle of the site is an unremarkable courtyard named The Garden of Motive Power because the power plant used to stand there. It's not much to look at. But who wouldn't want to spend at least part of each day in The Garden of Motive Power?

Riddarateppið

Embroidery at the National Museum of Iceland. Source.

Les Bas-Bleus

"... dussent-ils me maudire ..." A rising poet delivers her manifesto in Honoré Daumier's series of female caricatures, Les Bas-Bleus, on display at the Fleming Museum in Burlington, Vermont, until May 20th.

Nihonbashi Diorama

The Japanese are famous miniaturists, so it stands to reason that they would have the best dioramas. This one of Nihonbashi in the Edo period can be seen at the National Museum of Japanese History (aka Rekihaku) in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture. Source.